Re: CASAR: Main Office Lobby.
Leo made no overstatement in expression but looked at the marshal as if simply making comments on the weather as he spoke in matter of fact tones, "I have no shame in being a telepath Marshal K'mahda. I am not timid or embarrassed. I simply don't want to risk that you'll think I'm some kind of jewel that needs to be kept safe for the Proper Preservation of Psychicly Gifted Male Parts Act that seems to have been passed some time before written O'maeda history. My father and grandfather too have been kept like veal by your people, and while not uncomfortable, they do not have the urge to wander as I do. Nor do I feel that you can protect me better than I can myself, in any save perhaps a home economics style. I just won't use my telepathy to speak to you because until I do, you have to doubt I can, and until you know I can, I may be eye candy, but I am not worth the effort it might take to enslave me for your sexual purposes."
He then looked over to Aziza and nodded, "...I'm escaping the treatment that the males of my gifts receive. Unfortunately, I'm rather attached to the gender tokens of my species, and while I have considered changing a few features so as to not seem so much a desired specimen... Any doctor with the talent to do so, would know that if kept alive and properly nourished, but unable to wander and do as I please -they could make more credits in a year than most medical professionals do in a lifetime. Please do not believe it, but that is what I am to the O'maeda, a sperm factory of the highest caliber. The less, the good marshal here believes that, the better off I am..."
Then turning to regard Pepper he winked, "I've got more than I need after I get to my locker. I imagine you don't want just any fellow, but a man in uniform accompanying the rest on this mission. I'll wear the body suit because I know you like the fit and the Marshal will be kept wondering..."